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Summary: great book
Review: Beverly Cleary is amazing and truly gifted when it comes to relating to children, and the reader will find these to be very realistic problems presented in her books. In Muggie Maggie, Maggie's conflict is with Maggie's parents, teacher, and even peers who try to help her, but are having a difficult time recognizing her position. Maggie is scared to learn a new, difficult skill, which is something any person at any age can relate to. Although this seems to be the best conclusion as to why Maggie was so stubborn about learning cursive, for a young audience reading the book, it might have been better told through Maggie's eyes and thoughts versus those of a storyteller/narrator. In addition, there were important elements between her parents, teacher, and principal deciding how to address this situation that would have been missed, if the story was told by Maggie. The behavior of the parents and school staff was very realistic. The parents were put in the awkward position of trying to support her, recognize the situation she was in, but try to give her the pressure to succeed with this skill. Her teacher and principal were in a similar position, but had to develop subtle techniques to successfully, motivate her. Very good story!
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Summary: I have to disagree with one passage in this book.
Review: In one of her notes to the principal, Maggie's teacher, Mrs. Leeper, writes:
"Maggie is now reading cursive. I saw her reading what I had written on the chalkboard. If she can read it, she can write it."
Not necessarily. There are children (and adults) with perceptual motor handicaps, poor eye-hand co-ordination, and other, often unrecognized, disabilities, who CANNOT write well, even though their reading skills may be at grade level or higher. I feel that Beverly Cleary (who has been one of my favorite authors since I was in the third grade) does a disservice to the children in this group with this passage.
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Summary: learning cursive
Review: Muggie maggie was a book about a girl that didn't want to write cursive. It all started in Maggie's class. They were learning cursive, but Maggie said she doesn't have to write cursive because she has a computer. I would recommend this book because I think it is great. I might call it Teasing Maggie, because sometimes they think its funny that Maggie writes her name Muggie in cursive.
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Summary: Muggie Maggie
Review: Muggie Maggie
By: Beverly Cleary
This certain person is a girl with problems like a normal kid. Maggie is a smart girl who has a serious problem. This problem is she doesn't want to write cursive and she can't read it. One day Maggie was called to be the school monitor. The teacher wrote a note to send to the principal. I think people who like humor and realistic fiction would love this book because, it catches their attention. I think The best Christmas Pageant Ever is a lot like Muggie Maggie because this girl doesn't like cursive and in the book The Best Christmas Pageant Ever some kids didn't want to do some things too, so I think there similar. Read the book and find out! By Matt Hart
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Summary: Muggie Maggie
Review: OH MY GOSH! Did you know that in the book Muggie Maggie, a girl in the 3rd grade does not want to write in cursive? When her teacher sends notes to other teachers, Maggie wants to read them, but she does not know how to read cursive. At the end of the book, Maggie teaches herself how to write in cursive. I would recommend this book to anyone. I like this book a lot.
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Summary: Miss Smith's Book Club #2
Review: The book Muggie Maggie is a great story for students that are learning cursive. The character Maggie tries her best to learn how to write in cursive. There are many funny parts in the story that make it interesting to read. The book is helpful because it has some parts written in cursive. We recommend this book to kids that don't know how to write cursive.
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Summary: great book
Review: This book got me interested in cursive handwriting when I was in the first and second grade. I was in a classroom mixed with first and second graders. Everyday for writing, the grade 1's would practice printing and the 2nd graders would practice handwriting, which looked very hard and I dreaded second grade. But when I reached transferred to another school in second grade, the teacher read Muggie Maggie to the class and just in time too. I also liked looking at the cursive writing included in the story and found it to be rather beautiful, and slowly I began to learn it once we started, and soon enough, I was able to master it. In Maggie's case, she felt as if she didn't need to learn how to do it because she preffered writing notes on the computer, and at the same time, she felt as though cursive challenged her gifted and talent capabilities, but would not admit it. The school did the "write" thing by having her be the class monitor and deliver messages to the principal written in cursive writing, and when she was curious to see what the notes said she realized she couldn't read cursive writing, and sure enough, she got the hang of it and practiced it secretly, and all was well at the end. But this book also has a lot of humor and captures the essence of the characters in this book. Beverly Cleary is like a child at heart and has a great understanding of putting herself in children's shoes, and that's why she has written great story books that are still being read by today's generation, whether it's Henry Huggins or Ellen Tebbits books that came out almost 50 years ago or all of our favourite character Ramona's books that have lasted for what seems like forever. I hope to read another book from Maggie in the future if Cleary continues writing.
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Summary: Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary
Review: This is a wonderful story of a young girl and the obstacles she has to overcome to read and write cursive. Beverly Cleary takes Maggie on a journey everyone must go through early in school. Maggie confronts the conflict within herself to fight the desire to learn cursive. Maggie does not want to learn cursive because her teacher said to; she wants to learn in her own time. Maggie does some changing through the story and finally does find the joy of reading and writing cursive. Third graders learning cursive can relate to Maggie and the struggles she experiences. A must read for all young readers!
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Summary: This book had a moral.
Review: This story is about a girl who doesn't want to write cursive. I liked the title. My favorite part was when the teacher said, "Close your A's, your name is not Muggie Maggie." The moral was: try things before you say you don't like them.
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Summary: Good translation
Review: When I saw that "Muggie Maggie" had been translated into Spanish by a foreign publisher, I jumped at the chance to get it and try it out. The general premise of the book stays the same: Maggie has trouble learning cursive and decides that since she can't read in cursive that she souldn't have to write it. The serious yet funny atmosphere of the original English version is not lost in the Spanish one at all. Since I began to learn Spanish as a hobby, I have had troubles finding books that were right on with the original version. This one is very nice, and it did it's job of helping me learn my Spanish.
I also recommend the "Hank the Cowdog" series in Spanish, as well as the works of Lois Lowry, and the "Sweet Valley Twins" that are published by Editorial molino. Muggie Maggie was an excellent read in Spanish, and I was very grateful. I hope to find more books like it.
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